Ex-Palantir FDE

Call the role: Ex-Palantir FDE

Aug 19, 2026

Hello,

I'm hiring an ex-Palantir FDE and I'm asking you to leave the only company that has ever built this role properly. Before you apply please read the following:

1. Our landing page. Not slop, a thoughtful view of how we see ourselves and the industry.
2. Unedited discourse around what we're looking for in this role.
3. Our CEO's blog post about FDEs. It's ostensibly about Palantir but goes to the root of how we view this role.

Three months ago I ran a workshop with senior leaders at one of the payors we work with, onboarding them onto a provider claims anomaly root cause analysis application. I'd spent three weeks building this side-by-side with the subject matter experts in the cost of care department, and had been sweating about this presentation for days. 30min in one of the leaders pointed out that a fundamental definition we'd baked into the ontology was completely wrong and rendered the application useless. I was mortified. I fumbled my way through the rest of the workshop, promising to fix it and have it ready asap.

I spent the next 3 hours in a fire drill, ripping out and rewriting what was broken. I convinced the right people to have another session and after a few more dev cycles can now say happily that 15 people are using it daily to drive decisions that affect millions of dollars of P&L.

I led this project 4 months after I joined TextQL. I conceived of it, studied for it like a final, built it, polished it, shared it, watched people test it, and then fell on my face for it. Now I get to look back on its eventual success, and feel good that I can draw a direct thread between my work and making these people's work better.

At TextQL we scrap projects that don't have this level of impact, and don't build things that sit on a shelf. Your cycle times will be short. You find something broken at 10:30am, you fix it by 2pm. If we hire you, you'll be owning the equivalent of a f20 payor engagement in 4 months, you'll be on a highly focused team of 8, and you'll be writing prs that our CTO reviews.

We're building the AI systems that come next, the last software these organizations ever deploy, in a world where the script hasn't yet been written.

No YOE requirements. We care about judgment, slope, and ownership.

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305k+ (base + equity ~ 12bps + variable)

Best in class benefits

5 days in office in nyc (exceptions made for exceptional people)

Very short hiring turnaround

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Interested? Email me at max@textql.com, tell me why we're wrong above, and show me something you've built that people actually use.

Max, lead fde @ textql